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Request for artistic support for Movement for Justice in El Barrio’s Encuentro for Humanity, Sunday, December 4th, 3PM, Location TBA.

Arts and Culture is working in solidarity with Movement for Justice in El Barrio by providing creative support. We need:

Performers

Clowns

Musicians

Artists and artwork

Media/ Tech/ Live-Stream folk

And any other creative minds, voices and bodies

Please email James @jamesfredericrose to volunteer!
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From Chiapas to South Africa, from Egypt to Greece and Spain, from El Barrio, NYC to Occupy Wall St., together we have shown that “dignity,” “justice,” and “democracy” are not concepts to be imagined, but realities we must live and nourish.

Those from above- the 1%- who attempt to control our lives and plunder our world feed off our divisions as a people.

True liberation means knocking down hierarchies, and building a new world from the bottom up.

To do this we must engage in the most powerful form of rebellion: Listening to all those from below.

We invite you to our corner of the world, East Harlem (El Barrio), a neighborhood and community that has organized and fought back against oblivion for years, to join us in the NYC Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism.

An Encuentro is a moment of human exchange and reflection; it is a gathering. An Encuentro is not a meeting, a panel or a conference; it is a way of sharing developed by the Zapatistas as another form of doing politics: from below and to the left. It is a place where we can all speak, we will all listen, and we can all learn. It is a place where we can share the many different struggles that make us one.

We are calling all artist to help paint, build, work on visuals today, 2-6:30pm!!! The visuals created today will be part of the NYC Encuentro event happening in Harlem, Sunday Dec 4, 2011 @ 3pm, Location TBA.

Notes:
- NYC Encuentro has received a larger than expected RSVP! (movementforjusticeinelbario at gmail dot com)
- Several hundred people will be in attendance, that’s not including all the community members who live in the area!
- James @jamesfredericrose from Arts & Culture will be the contact person. Joe @loucrimsonmight from Arts & Culture Puppet Guild be helping coordinate.

“An Encuentro is a moment of human exchange and reflection; it is a gathering. An Encuentro is not a meeting, a panel or a conference; it is a way of sharing developed by the Zapatistas as another form of doing politics: from below and to the left. It is a place where we can all speak, we will all listen, and we can all learn. It is a space where we can share the many different struggles that make us one.” -Movement for Justice in El Barrio/The Other Campaign New York

Facilitation Unknown

The following are snippets from the Nov. 22nd meeting. The original meeting notes are yet to be recovered. I’m leaving the comments open in case anyone wants to contribute some notes via memory – Antonio